Yes, the "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) are launching Foster Care 2.0, where you will soon need a license to give birth, for the goods of the birth belong to the foreign corporations.
The Dark Money Of Children's Rights, Clinton Foundation & Perkins Coie
Marcia Lowry seems to no longer be with Children's Rights, which I still take severe issue with the groundbreaking attorney fees awarded by Nancy Edmunds almost 10 years ago inn Michigan, where the case continues to linger in a perpetual state of attorney fee billing and SACWIS improvements, on top of more improvements, because she has started up a new gig.
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| http://www.abetterchildhood.org/ |
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| Marcia Lowry |
Marcia Robinson Lowry is the Founder and Executive Director of A Better Childhood. Ms. Lowry is the pioneering architect of the body of law that protects the country’s most vulnerable children. Her work sheds light on the deficiencies of our country’s long-unaccountable child welfare systems. Using the power of the courts, her work is focused on developing and implementing realistic, long-term solutions to ensure that abused and neglected children have a chance for a better childhood.
Ms. Lowry created ABC in 2014 to develop new and innovative approaches to helping children who have been left to languish and suffer. In so doing, she continues her career-long advocacy for children. Before creating ABC, Ms. Lowry served as Founder and Executive Director of Children’s Rights for almost twenty years. She previously was the director of the Children’s Rights Projects of the New York Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Collaborating with policy analysts, experts, local organizations and government officials, Ms. Lowry leverages the justice system to reform child welfare programs. As the lead lawyer in class-action cases in eighteen jurisdictions across the country, Ms. Lowry’s work has improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of children. Currently, she is active in reform efforts in New York City, Texas, Minnesota, Mississippi, Oklahoma, the District of Columbia and New Jersey. Her lawsuits lead to increased oversight of child welfare agencies and influence multiple jurisdictions’ allocations of billions of dollars. Most importantly, her advocacy results in better outcomes for children and families. Obviously, this is a blatant lie considering the fact that the Michigan case is still lingering and all of her other initiatives at Children's Rights never, ever gave any resolution to the children who were drugged, beaten, raped, attempted suicide and successfully attempted suicide, and victims of child trafficking.FUN FACT! NOT ONE FOSTER CHILD HAS EVER BEEN AWARDED A PENNY FOR BEING A VICTIM OF DRUGGING AS LAB RATS, BEATINGS, RAPE, TORTURE FROM CHILDREN'S RIGHTS LAWSUITS
So, now comes the licensing for parental rights as parents being relatives of the child who is under the legal aegis of the state, where guardianship is transferred to the corporate parent through human asset management NGOs for the forfeiting of the children's legacies to be loaded up on their foreign corporate UCC cargo ship, filled lots and lots of children's trust funds from stealin' from Medicaid.
The battle for control of the residuals of the peculiar institution is in full force in the courts, but in this instance, since A Better Childhood, a foreign corporation registered as a domestic nonprofit under a fictitious name, is out Chappaqua, New York, registered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that started out Florida.
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| https://opencorporates.com/statements/570666864 |
Selected Entity Status Information
Current Entity Name: A BETTER CHILDHOOD, INC.
DOS ID #: 4637882
Initial DOS Filing Date: SEPTEMBER 17, 2014
County: WESTCHESTER
Jurisdiction: NEW YORK
Entity Type: DOMESTIC NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION
Current Entity Status: ACTIVE
Selected Entity Address Information
DOS Process (Address to which DOS will mail process if accepted on behalf of the entity)
A BETTER CHILDHOOD, INC.
C/O FREDERIC DORWART, LAWYERS
124 EAST FOURTH STREET
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| https://opencorporates.com/statements/515330091 |
Registered Agent
NONE
This office does not record information regarding the names and addresses of officers, shareholders or directors of nonprofessional corporations except the chief executive officer, if provided, which would be listed above. Professional corporations must include the name(s) and address(es) of the initial officers, directors, and shareholders in the initial certificate of incorporation, however this information is not recorded and only available by viewing the certificate.
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| https://opencorporates.com/statements/511307034 |
# of Shares Type of Stock $ Value per Share
No Information Available
*Stock information is applicable to domestic business corporations.
Name History
Filing Date Name Type Entity Name
SEP 17, 2014 Actual A BETTER CHILDHOOD, INC.
A Fictitious name must be used when the Actual name of a foreign entity is unavailable for use in New York State. The entity must use the fictitious name when conducting its activities or business in New York State.
NOTE: New York State does not issue organizational identification numbers.
It seems Marcia Lowry is the only paid employee at $200,000 a year to sue the states for the purposes of injecting another layer of predatory administrative services, in what looks like legal move to force the creation of their latest and greatest solution to procure contracts, probably for ABC, for the child welfare system.
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| https://pdf.guidestar.org/PDF_Images/2016/472/004/2016-472004064-0e9eb8d8-9.pdf |
I also see Hillary Clinton because she renewed her law license.
Lawsuit: W.Va.'s child foster care system is failing children
Charleston — Advocates filed a class action lawsuit against West Virginia officials Tuesday, alleging that while the state is quick to terminate parental rights, it doesn't have adequate foster families and adoptive homes in which to place those children. Often, children sleep in hotel rooms or in DHHR offices.In turn, the state's child welfare system is putting about 7,000 foster children at heightened risk of someday experiencing homelessness, mental health problems, incarceration and addiction, according to the lawsuit, which advocates said they planned to file at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday in the Huntington Division of the Southern District of West Virginia.
A Better Childhood, a national nonprofit advocacy group that wages court battles on behalf of children; Disability Rights of West Virginia, a federally funded nonprofit; and the West Virginia law firm Shaffer and Shaffer allege that West Virginia's Department of Health and Human Resources has "repeatedly failed the children they are charged with protecting."
Plaintiffs alleged that without adequate suitable homes, DHHR segregates children in institutions, lodges them in temporary shelter care, places them in overcrowded foster care homes, or places them in poorly screened kinship foster homes.
"We're not seeking money damages," said Marcia Robinson Lowry, executive director of A Better Childhood. "We're seeking for things to change going forward – that the government must take care of these kids."
The lawsuit names Gov. Jim Justice, DHHR Cabinet Secretary Bill Crouch, DHHR Deputy Secretary Jeremiah Samples, and DHHR Commissioner of the Bureau for Children and Families Linda Watts as defendants. Plaintiffs filed the lawsuit "on behalf of all children who are now, or will be, in the custody of DHHR."
DHHR officials were not aware of the lawsuit Monday.
DHHR officials have said that West Virginia has about 7,000 kids in state custody, and that the number has increased by 67 percent since 2013. During that time, the number increased nationally by 11 percent, according to DHHR.
DHHR officials have publicly said the state's child welfare system was overwhelmed by the addiction epidemic. But according to the lawsuit, the state's child welfare system was "already strained and mismanaged."
"The drug epidemic was not the root of the problem but rather toppled an already fractured system," the lawsuit states. "The public statements display a lack of accountability but nonetheless, clearly acknowledge that the system is in fact in crisis."
The lawsuit says that recruiting foster families is difficult in the state because "DHHR caseworkers routinely exclude foster parents from MDT meetings, verbally threaten to remove children from foster parents’ care when they engage in any sort of advocacy that challenges the caseworkers’ orders, are difficult to contact in crisis situations (such as when consent is needed for medical or behavioral health care), and often speak disrespectfully towards foster parents." MDT meetings are multi-disciplinary team meetings, where case workers, prosecuting attorneys, parents, lawyers and others meet to address familial problems that led to abuse and neglect.
Some foster parents are also selective about the children they will accept.
The lawsuit states that DHHR has "an insufficient placement array, an insufficient number of placement resources, and an insufficient number of homes that are willing to accept older children, children with severe behavioral issues, and large sibling groups."
Meanwhile, West Virginia is quick to terminate parental rights, frequently within months after the child is placed with a foster family, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit states that in 2013, there were 1,040 terminations, and 1,988 in 2017.
Meanwhile, the number of adoptions in the state has not kept up, according to the lawsuit, "leading to more children becoming legal orphans, frequently left in institutional settings."
In turn, children are routinely shuffled "from temporary placement to temporary placement, disregarding their unique needs," according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit states that frequent moves while in foster care are associated with maltreatment, poorer educational outcomes and increased mental health issues.
Adolescent children are at higher risk of substance abuse, juvenile arrests and failing out of school, according to the lawsuit.
One 11-year-old girl, with Down syndrome, was removed from her parents after they were arrested for habitually failing to send her to school. She was placed with an aunt, then in two foster homes. Now, state officials plan to send her to The Potomac Center in Romney, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit says that in 2017, "formal allegations were filed against the facility claiming that, among other abuses, the disabled residents did not receive the services the facility claimed to offer and they failed to hire, train and supervise their employees adequately.
"Separately, as a result of an ongoing criminal investigation, state police have claimed that Potomac Center staff abused 12 children, ages seven to 17, subjecting them to physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, including inhumane and degrading treatment by some employees of the Potomac Center, Inc. facility," the lawsuit states.
Four senior administrators were charged with failing to report the abuse.
In another case, a boy was sent from living with his abusive mother to his abusive aunt's, according to the lawsuit. He suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Plaintiffs say that due to the increase in foster children, state officials are placing more children in kinship care, meaning in the care of a relative. About half are in kinship care.
But according to the lawsuit, those families don't receive the $600 monthly payment that certified families do, and DHHR officials dissuade them from becoming certified. Because they aren't certified, their homes are not subject to the same safety regulations, the lawsuit says.
"Upon information and belief, DHHR regularly discourages kinship caregivers from seeking foster home certification by either failing to inform them of their option to become certified, or by 'warning' them that they will likely not meet the certification requirements and may instead risk losing the foster children if they seek certification," the lawsuit states.
Nearly 20 percent aren't licensed, according to the lawsuit.
"Those are bad numbers," said Robinson Lowry. "They're very bad numbers and we really do think something needs to be done and probably nothing's going to be done unless this lawsuit does it."
Plaintiffs are also suing about over-reliance on out-of-state facilities. The lawsuit states that DHHR is spending approximately $41,181,775 per year to place children in out-of-state congregate care facilities "that are too frequently the subject of investigations that confirm rampant sexual, physical, and emotional abuse at the hands of employees who are undertrained and not properly screened."
In 2015, the Department of Justice sent then-Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin a letter, stating that West Virginia was keeping too many kids with serious mental health problems far from their homes, in residential facilities and psychiatric hospitals, often out of state. That violated a U.S. Supreme Court decision that found segregation of people with disabilities is discrimination.
In May of this year, state and federal officials announced they had reached a memorandum of understanding, and that West Virginia officials had agreed to expand services meant to keep those children at home and in care in their own communities.
According to the agreement, West Virginia has agreed to begin screening children on Medicaid, those who are in the care of the state, including foster children, and those who reside in juvenile justice facilities, to determine whether the new services could be of help. State officials would then offer new services covered by Medicaid, including a mobile crisis team, and in-home visits by mental health care providers.
Plaintiffs argue that a goal, of a 25 percent reduction of the June 2015 number of children in residential placement by 2022, is too low, and that the MOU is "self-enforcing" with "little to no oversight."
They want DHHR to contract with an outside entity to conduct a needs assessment of the state's foster care system. They also want DHHR to develop a plan for ensuring CPS workers don't handle more than 15 cases, that DHHR keeps written plans for each child with the goal of finding that child a permanent home or be reunited with his or her family, that kinship families are safe and properly trained, and to increase the availability of community-based mental health care for children.
The lawsuit also states that DHHR doesn't employ enough child welfare workers, that it fails to "adequately" screen their applicants for criminal backgrounds or drug use, and experiences high turn-over. Plaintiffs say that a 2013 audit recommended exit interviews to reduce turn-over, but DHHR ignored that recommendation.
In January 2019, 213 positions were vacant, amounting to a 45 percent vacancy rate among caseworkers, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit states that while The Child Welfare League of America, a coalition of private and public agencies that develops child welfare policies, recommends CPS workers shouldn't handle more than 12 to 15 clients at a time, it "is not uncommon" for West Virginia CPS workers to handle 50 cases.
Inadequate staffing results in "less time to interact with children, families, and service providers or to provide meaningful and appropriate case plans, necessary services, and timely casework and decision-making around issues such as permanency planning," the lawsuit states.
Case workers also fail to prepare foster children for adult life, according to the lawsuit, putting them at higher risk of premature pregnancy and incarceration.
"Rather, caseworkers attempt to plan for the transition out of foster care when youth are on the verge of aging out, sometimes as late as weeks before a teen’s 18th birthday," the lawsuit states. "Without any plan in place, young people are being dropped off at homeless shelters."
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